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en-usSun, 19 Jul 2015 14:36:47 GMTFocus Forum15(Illegal) Immigrant accused in Conn. killing was spared deportation (2nd offense)http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/3313823/posts
A Haitian immigrant who was released from prison in January after serving a 17-year prison sentence for attempted murder is back in custody on a murder charge in the death of a Connecticut woman last month. The Bulletin reports that Jean Jacques&#x27;s prison file was marked &#x22;Detainer: Immigration&#x22; and that Connecticut officials say he was released in January to the custody of the U.S. Department of Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE), but was never deported. ICE spokesman Shawn Neudauer tells the newspaper the law prohibits him from discussing Jacques&#x27; case. On Monday, the 40-year-old Jacques was in a Connecticut court...CBS/APhttp://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/3313823/posts#commentSun, 19 Jul 2015 14:36:47 GMTImmigrant who is a convicted felon accused in fatal stabbinghttp://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/3312662/posts
NEW LONDON, Conn. (AP) &#x97; A Haitian immigrant who was released from prison in January after serving a sentence for attempted murder is back in custody on a murder charge in the death of a Connecticut woman last month. ... His crimes also included the illegal use of a gun during a 1996 deadly shooting, qualifying him for deportation to his native Haiti, the newspaper reported. ICE spokesman Shawn Neudauer told the newspaper federal privacy laws prohibit him from discussing Jacques&#x92; case. .... Norwich Police Chief Louis Fusaro Sr. said it was discomforting that Jacques wasn&#x92;t deported after his prison...http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/3312662/posts#commentThu, 16 Jul 2015 15:37:38 GMTPrayer request for High School Missions Teamhttp://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-religion/3306503/posts
Team Haiti 2015 - Riverside Christian School Hi FReepers,Youngest kid just graduated from High School and he, (squatting, lower right) and a team of other students and adults are bringing the Gospel of Jesus Christ to the people of Haiti as well as helping to build a new dental clinic.I know they will be in a safe area but I still worry for their safety.Prayers of protection and encouragement are appreciated.Vanityhttp://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-religion/3306503/posts#commentWed, 1 Jul 2015 14:53:03 GMTMom&#x92;s alleged affair cited in stabbing of 3 childrenhttp://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-chat/3306270/posts
A Boston man allegedly stabbed his former girlfriend&#x92;s three children after learning she had been unfaithful to him, then pleaded with a police officer to kill him. &#x93;I wanted you to shoot me,&#x94; Rock Aurelien told police when he was arrested Saturday afternoon, according to court records. &#x93;I did it. I planned this all along.&#x94;Boston Globehttp://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-chat/3306270/posts#commentTue, 30 Jun 2015 22:39:22 GMTMass Deportations of Haitian Immigrants From Dominican Republic Fearedhttp://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/3301439/posts
Tens of thousands of undocumented immigrants in the Dominican Republic -- the vast majority Haitians -- face deportation as a deadline to apply for legal status looms. The problem of what to do with thousands of workers who entered illegally from a neighboring country is not an unfamiliar one in the hemisphere. The plight of undocumented immigrants in the United States and lawmakers&#x27; failed attempts at reform come to mind. The Dominican government tackled the issue with a &#x22;regularization plan&#x22; that offered a path to legal status for the undocumented. But critics say it was designed to fail the migrant...CNNhttp://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/3301439/posts#commentThu, 18 Jun 2015 05:27:09 GMTIn Search Of The Red Cross&#x27; $500 Million In Haiti Relief (built 6 permanent homes)http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/3296764/posts
When a devastating earthquake leveled Haiti in 2010, millions of people donated to the American Red Cross. The charity raised almost half a billion dollars. It was one of its most successful fundraising efforts ever. The American Red Cross vowed to help Haitians rebuild, but after five years the Red Cross&#x27; legacy in Haiti is not new roads, or schools, or hundreds of new homes. It&#x27;s difficult to know where all the money went. NPR and ProPublica went in search of the nearly $500 million and found a string of poorly managed projects, questionable spending and dubious claims of success,...NPRhttp://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/3296764/posts#commentThu, 4 Jun 2015 13:16:36 GMTTeflon Tony Rodham, the Clintons&#x92; Shady Idhttp://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/3294236/posts
Sitting in a courtroom three years ago, after skipping out on a sizable legal bill, Hillary Rodham Clinton&#x92;s youngest brother struck a reassuring tone: Don&#x92;t worry, the money is coming. &#x93;I deal through the Clinton Foundation,&#x94; Tony Rodham said, according to court transcripts uncovered by the New York Times. He gave his word that Hillary and Bill were setting him up with Haitian-government permits to build a $22 million housing development in the earthquake-stricken country. &#x93;I hound my brother-in-law, because it&#x92;s his fund that we&#x92;re going to get our money from,&#x94; Rodham explained, promising a $1 million check once the...National Reviewhttp://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/3294236/posts#commentThu, 28 May 2015 13:14:10 GMTHow the Clintons Worked the Angles in Haitihttp://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/3290845/posts
Within two weeks of Haiti&#x92;s January 2010 earthquake, the word had already gone out from the State Department that Bill Clinton would be in charge of U.S. reconstruction efforts. &#x93;That means,&#x94; one individual told me and I reported in a Jan. 25, 2010 column, &#x93;if you don&#x92;t have Clinton connections, you won&#x92;t be in the game.&#x94; The &#x93;game,&#x94; as my source called it, meant securing hundreds of millions of dollars in no-bid contracts from the State Department&#x92;s U.S. Agency for International Development and grants from multilateral institutions like the InterAmerican Development Bank, which gets the bulk of its funding from...Wall Street Journalhttp://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/3290845/posts#commentSun, 17 May 2015 23:34:46 GMTHow the Clintons worked Haitihttp://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/3290315/posts
[I]n the aftermath of the January 2010 earthquake, while Hillary Clinton was secretary of state, the Obama administration and Congress gave Bill Clinton carte blanche in handling hundreds of millions of U.S. taxpayer dollars flowing to Haiti for recovery and reconstruction. This translated into enormous political power for the former president in the poorest country in the hemisphere, making him a de facto cacique. Mr. Clinton loves to paint himself as a third-world redeemer, as he did in an interview in Africa with an NBC reporter that aired last week. The reporter asked about charges that the Clinton Foundation&#x92;s practice...powerlineblog.comhttp://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/3290315/posts#commentFri, 15 May 2015 21:39:56 GMTBlackburn: Clintons Helped Themselves, Not The People of Haitihttp://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/3284058/posts
Monday on Newsmax TV&#x92;s &#x93;The Steve Malzberg Show,&#x94; Rep. Marsha Blackburn (R-TN) said the Clintons did not do good work in Haiti, but instead used the tragic 2010 earthquake funds to fill their friends&#x92; pockets. Blackburn explained when the government of Haiti set up the Interim Haiti Recovery Commission (IHRC), and named Bill Clinton as co-chair is when the &#x93;tangled web&#x94; began, leaving many complaints unanswered at the time. &#x93;It is just amazing when you look at this tangled web they have woven,&#x94; she said. &#x93;The State Department, with Secretary Clinton in charge, decides they&#x92;re going to embark on what...Breitbarthttp://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/3284058/posts#commentTue, 28 Apr 2015 18:22:45 GMTTangled Clinton Web: Pay to Play? How Haiti Earthquake Helped Enrich the Clintonshttp://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/3282659/posts
In a preview &#x27;Fox News Reporting: The Tangled Clinton Web&#x27;, Bret Baier reports on the accusations that Bill and Hillary Clinton used Haiti earthquake to enrich themselves by making sure many of the more lucrative contracts to help rebuild the country went to either Clinton supporters or donors.Fox Newshttp://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/3282659/posts#commentFri, 24 Apr 2015 15:05:47 GMTScandals force Hillary Clinton to delay 2016 bid announcementhttp://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/3272187/posts
Many of the key figures cited in a scathing inspector general&#x92;s report this week are allies of Hillary Rodham Clinton, marking the latest in a series of stumbles for the former first lady and secretary of state that likely forced her to delay her planned presidential campaign announcement.A Democratic strategist familiar with her team&#x92;s thinking said they are scrambling to limit the damage and readjust the campaign rollout schedule after the Homeland Security Department&#x92;s inspector general revealed an apparent cronyism scandal that ensnared Mrs. Clinton&#x92;s brother, Anthony Rodham, and two of her political confidants, Virginia Gov. Terry McAuliffe and former...The Washington Timeshttp://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/3272187/posts#commentThu, 26 Mar 2015 02:45:37 GMTClinton Foundation&#x27;s chickens coming home to roost in Haiti?http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/3270500/posts
It has always been apparent to me that the Bill, Hillary and Chelsea Clinton Foundation was a poorly disguised vehicle for bribery, kickbacks, and political operations, all under the guise of tax-deductible fundraising.&#xC2;&#xA0; A veneer of do-gooderism, adopting popular racially correct causes like AIDS treatment and relief for Haitians, would suffice to denounce any queries into the real nature of the money pot as harming sacred victim groups. But somehow or other, the usual Clinton immunity has worn off &#xE2;&#x80;&#x93; perhaps because, as Ed Klein alleges, the Obama machine is covertly sabotaging Hillary&#xE2;&#x80;&#x99;s attempt to seize back control of...American Thinkerhttp://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/3270500/posts#commentSat, 21 Mar 2015 17:44:31 GMTHow the Clintons&#x92; Haiti development plans succeed &#x97; and disappointhttp://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/3270194/posts
Deep in the Haitian countryside, peanut farmer Wismith Moricette epitomizes the success of Bill and Hillary Rodham Clinton&#x92;s charitable work: Through an innovative program backed by the Clintons, the 23-year-old has doubled the yield from his one-acre plot. Along with all those peanuts, Moricette said, have come visions of a brighter future for his wife and young son. Fifty miles away on Haiti&#x92;s Caribbean coast, Anelle Germinal exemplifies another reality of the Clintons&#x92; work here: disappointment. The 33-year-old mother of four has been standing in the baking sun every day for months waiting for work in the struggling Caracol Industrial...Washington Posthttp://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/3270194/posts#commentFri, 20 Mar 2015 18:39:28 GMTHaitians Protest Outside Hillary Clinton&#x92;s Office Over &#x91;Billions Stolen&#x92; by Clinton Foundationhttp://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/3270263/posts
BY: Washington Free Beacon Staff March 20, 2015 8:27 am Haitian activists protested outside of the Clinton Foundation in New York over the loss of &#x93;billions of dollars&#x94; that was meant to help rebuild after the devastating 2010 earthquake. The activists are claiming the money was stolen through the Haiti Reconstruction Commission that was headed by Bill Clinton. In January 2015, the Clinton Foundation was the target of protests for wasting more than $10 billion and awarding contracts to non-Haitian companies. The activists also said Haiti as a cover for foreign governments to funnel kickbacks of hundreds of millions of...freebeaconhttp://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/3270263/posts#commentFri, 20 Mar 2015 21:00:46 GMTClinton run for presidency swept up in Haitian gold mining permit affairhttp://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/3266023/posts
The presidential ambitions of Hillary Rodham Clinton have become ensnared in an obscure gold-mining project in Haiti, as the Democratic favorite for the presidency begins her second run for the White House. In a story that suggests cronyism, questionable ethics and a blurring of the lines between charity and profiteering, The Daily Mail reported on Sunday that Hillary Clinton&#x27;s brother, Tony Rodham, sat on the board of VCS Mining when the unlisted, Delaware-based junior was granted a permit to mine gold in Haiti following a massive earthquake on the impoverished island nation in 2010. The permit was the first to...MINING.COMhttp://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/3266023/posts#commentMon, 9 Mar 2015 21:22:44 GMTGold Mine: Hillary Clinton&#x92;s Brother Granted Super-Rare Mining Permit from Haiti After State Dept.http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/3264645/posts
Full title.....Gold Mine: Hillary Clinton&#x92;s Brother Granted Super-Rare Mining Permit from Haiti After State Dept. Sent Country Billions Hillary Rodham Clinton&#x92;s brother, Tony Rodham, sat on the board of a self-described mining company that in 2012 received one of only two &#x93;gold exploitation permits&#x94; from the Haitian government&#x97;the first issued in over 50 years. The tiny North Carolina company, VCS Mining, also included on its board Bill Clinton&#x92;s co-chair of the Interim Haiti Recovery Commission (IHRC), former Haitian Prime Minister Jean-Max Bellerive. The Rodham gold mine revelation is just one of dozens featured in a forthcoming bombshell investigative book by...breitbart.comhttp://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/3264645/posts#commentThu, 5 Mar 2015 20:48:07 GMTHaiti, Bill Clinton welcome first Marriott hotelhttp://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/3261368/posts
Three years after encouraging one of the Caribbean&#x92;s largest private employers to go into the hotel business to help bring much-needed jobs and tourism to a destitute Haiti, former U.S. President Bill Clinton on Tuesday welcomed Haiti&#x92;s first Marriott, calling it one of the best hotels in the country. &#x93;I want to thank Marriott for more than the hotel, more than the jobs, more than the training, more than the income,&#x94; Clinton said. &#x93;I want to thank them for giving all of you the chance to show the real Haiti to the world that will come to this hotel.&#x94; Read...Miami Heraldhttp://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/3261368/posts#commentWed, 25 Feb 2015 14:32:57 GMTBYU grad rescues child sex slaveshttp://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-chat/3258280/posts
A team of former Navy Seals and CIA operatives splash beer on their faces as they prepare to play the part of American sex tourists. They&#x92;ll have to maintain laser-sharp focus as they engage in negotiations with some of the world&#x92;s dirtiest criminals. One suspicious move or remark could put their whole team at risk and prevent the rescue of dozens of innocent children. This team, known as Operation Underground Railroad, works to prosecute child sex traffickers and to rescue the victims. Heading the team is Tim Ballard &#x97; a husband, a father of six children and a BYU alumnus....BYU Universehttp://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-chat/3258280/posts#commentTue, 17 Feb 2015 04:00:56 GMTMachetes cutting a wider swath of fear in U.S. communities
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They have the heft of an ax, a blade nearly as long as a sword, and the intimidation power to make the hair stand up on the back of your neck. Cheap and easily bought, machetes in America have commonly been reserved for underbrush and sugar-cane cutting. But now, in a spreading trend that so far has drawn little national attention, criminals are using machetes as weapons, striking fear in cities and towns across the country. Witness these recent incidents: In the heartland Indiana city of Evansville in February, a robber pulled a machete on a convenience-store cashier, who put...Scripps Howard News Servicehttp://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/1592392/posts#commentWed, 8 Mar 2006 15:52:54 GMTProtesters Gather at Clinton Foundation to Complain of &#x27;Missing Money&#x27; from Haiti Recoveryhttp://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-chat/3246332/posts
Protesters gathered outside the Clinton Foundation in New York City to complain about &#x22;missing money&#x22; from the Haiti recovery effort from the 2010 earthquake: &#x22;New Yorkers with roots in Haiti say the picture [of the Haiti recovery] isn&#x27;t so rosy,&#x22; said the NY1 anchor. The protesters claimed that the $10 billion meant to help rebuild Haiti did little to help the country after the devastating quake. And that much of the money went to non-Haitian companies. &#x22;[I]n Harlem, people raised their voices to call attention to the missing money,&#x22; said the local New York City reporter. &#x22;This protest outside the...The Weekly Standardhttp://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-chat/3246332/posts#commentTue, 13 Jan 2015 15:22:39 GMTFive years since giant earthquake..,the people of Haiti are waiting to be rebuilt [truncated title]http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-chat/3245971/posts
Five years ago this week a devastating 7.0 magnitude earthquake hit Port-Au-Prince, the capital of Haiti, all-but obliterating the city in the process. The tremor, the strongest to hit the island since 1770, killed 300,000, left 1.5million homeless and destroyed 60 per cent of the country&#x27;s government buildings - including the National Palace. But despite &#xA3;8.6billion being handed over in donations and foreign aid since the crisis began, much of the country still lies in ruins or is waiting to be rebuilt.UK Daily Mailhttp://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-chat/3245971/posts#commentMon, 12 Jan 2015 14:56:27 GMTHaitian welder turned amputee soccer star: &#x27;It&#x27;s the best life&#x27;http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-religion/3245790/posts
A member of Team Zaryen plays soccer. Credit: Daniel Ibanez / CNA. Vatican City, Jan 10, 2015 / 02:32 pm (CNA/EWTN News).- After losing a leg during Haiti&#xE2;&#x80;&#x99;s devastating 2010 earthquake, Wilfrid Macena became a prosthetic technician and founded an amputee soccer team--and says his life can&#xE2;&#x80;&#x99;t be topped years after the disaster. &#xE2;&#x80;&#x9C;The process has really helped me because I was only welding before the earthquake. I never could have believed that I would be a technician making prosthetics and helping the children in Haiti,&#xE2;&#x80;&#x9D; Macena told CNA Jan. 9. &#xE2;&#x80;&#x9C;Every time they came to check our prosthetics, I...cnahttp://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-religion/3245790/posts#commentSun, 11 Jan 2015 21:54:33 GMTUN peacekeeping troops fire at protesters demanding resignation of Haiti&#x27;s prime ministerhttp://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/3237200/posts
U.N. mission spokeswoman Sophie Boutaud de la Combe did not immediately return a message for comment.foxnews.comhttp://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/3237200/posts#commentSun, 14 Dec 2014 23:35:20 GMTUN peacekeeping troops fire at protesters in Haiti
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United Nations peacekeepers on Friday fired at a crowd of protesters who were demanding new leadership just days after a government-appointed commission recommended that the country&#x27;s prime minister resign. Thousands of protesters marched through the capital, Port-au-Prince, as they burned tires and clashed with U.N. troops and police, who also fired tear gas. Read more at http://www.liveleak.com/view?i=e07_1418461116#8MvX3mZS12tKGJ2v.99Liveleak.comhttp://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/3237138/posts#commentSun, 14 Dec 2014 19:27:01 GMT